UTLA has reached a tentative agreement in reopener bargaining with the Los Angeles Unified School District on extended safety measures, a 5% pay raise for educators, strategies for staffing the City of Angels online independent study program, and learning continuity for students who must quarantine.
Parents, educators, students, and community members from Monroe High in the San Fernando Valley united today to denounce so-called Student-Centered Funding and to call on LAUSD School Board President Kelly Gonez to stand with them and vote no on SCF on September 14.
UTLA is in full support of the decision by the School Board and Interim Superintendent Megan Reilly to require full COVID-19 vaccination for all eligible students. UTLA made this demand at the bargaining table, publicly called for this action, and take pride in continuing to lead on issues of safety in our schools.
UTLA is in bargaining with the Los Angeles Unified School District on more robust learning options for students who must quarantine as the highly contagious Delta variant continues to move through our communities. There have been two bargaining sessions between UTLA and LAUSD so far.
On Thursday, United Teachers Los Angeles launched a massive digital ad-buy to educate the Los Angeles community and urge the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Board of Education to vote against a pending measure that would convert the district’s budgeting to a so-called “student centered funding” model.
The UTLA Board of Directors has voted overwhelmingly to support a vaccine mandate for all LAUSD employees. The UTLA Board had previously voted to not oppose a vaccine mandate.
UTLA members have overwhelmingly approved the sideletter agreement with LAUSD on a physical return for the 2021-2022 school year. Over three days of voting from June 15 through 17 conducted by Integrity Voting Systems, 12,193 ballots were cast, with 94% Yes ballots (11,485 ballots) and 6% No (708).
Weekly UTLA update with President Cecily Myart-Cruz.
LA Unified plans to return to full, in-person learning five days a week for the 2021-2022 school year, unless pandemic conditions change for the worse.
Concerns have come up about motions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict brought up at some of the eight UTLA Area meetings this month. The motions were debated and discussed, and they passed in some of the Area meetings. They did not pass in all of the meetings.
